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*Updates for editors* - Featured templates <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateData/Template_discovery#Featured_templates>, a new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist/Focus_areas/Template_recall_and_discovery> will be deployed this week to all Wikimedia projects: With this feature, editors will be able to quickly access a list of templates that are likely to be useful. These templates will be displayed in a list, under the "featured" tab of the template discovery interface. Administrators can define the list via the Community Configuration interface. The feature fulfills a request by the community through the Community Wishlist <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist/Wishes/Easy_access_Templates> . [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367428>[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392896> - [image: Recurrent item] View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks>. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in the Wikisource Book Export Tool <https://wikisource.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikisource:WS_Export> was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374457> *Updates for technical contributors* - [image: Recurrent item] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.45/wmf.10> *In depth* - Developers, designers, and all Wikimedians are invited to submit a project idea <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/7953/> for the Wikimania Hackathon 2025. Read this Diff blog post <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/06/30/call-for-projects-wikimania-hackathon-2025-is-coming-to-nairobi/> for more details. *Meetings and events* - WikiIndaba 2025 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2025> scholarship application and program submission is open until 23:59 GMT on July 20. WikiIndaba is a regional conference for African Wikimedians both on the continent and in the diaspora to unite and grow together. Submit your scholarship application <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJTv68R1OPASXXDfpIl8EWiMLTM-TDwh6_5gNVvFuWccFZ2Q/viewform> and program proposal <https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/BI3omIfH> now! - WikiCon Brasil 2025 <https://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCon_Brasil_2025> will take place on July 19-20 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian community members are encouraged to register and attend! *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/29> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.* -- Uzoma Ozurumba (She/her) Movement Communications Specialist (Product and Tech) meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:UOzurumba_(WMF)
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